By Chris Williams: We’ve learned this week that Kalle Sauerland, the promoter for WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KO’s), that the reason the bout between Haye and IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko couldn’t be put together was because of the financial differences between the two fighters.

It seems that Klitschko wasn’t willing to give what Haye and his promoter were asking for the fight. Sauerland said “David [Haye] is keen on fighting one of the Klitschko brothers. But the devil is in the financial details. There are multiple parties with a financial stake in Haye’s fights.”

In other words, Haye and his promoters didn’t want to accept what Wladimir and his promotional company were offering to him. You have to wonder what Haye and his management team were asking for in this fight. I had heard that Haye’s team wanted at least a 50-50 deal going into the negotiations, which is really kind of absurd given that Haye hasn’t really fought anyone at heavyweight other than the big slow Nikolay Valuev, 38-year-old John Ruiz, 38-year-old Monte Barrett and a fighter by the name of Tomas Bonin.

It’s neither here not there what Haye accomplished at cruiserweight, because that’s one of the weakest divisions in boxing. If you were to pick out one of the current champions in the cruiserweight division, set them up with some fights against some aging heavyweights like Valuev, Barrett and Ruiz, should that same cruiserweight deserve to get a 50-50 deal with a great heavyweight like Wladimir Klitschko after beating just those heavyweights?

I don’t think so. The fact that chose not to fight Wladimir and Vitali earlier and picked out the weakest of the heavyweight champions to pick up his WBA belt doesn’t mean that Haye deserves to get a 50-50 deal. Based on the limited opposition that Haye has fought at heavyweight, I would expect him to get no more than 40%, if that. It doesn’t matter if Haye was able to beat cruiserweights like Enzo Maccarinelli and Jean Marc Mormeck, that doesn’t apply here. But those same fighters in with Wladimir, and they would be destroyed.

Those past accomplishments in a division that few boxing fans even follow, really doesn’t matter when trying to put together a fight with Wladimir. You can’t expect a heavyweight like Haye, with his limited experience, to get an even 50-50 deal with Wladimir. For that to happen, I would think that Haye would have to beat some named fighters like Odlanier Solis, Alexander Povetkin, Samuel Peter and Denis Boytsov.

However, even if Haye beat all those guys, I still wouldn’t put him at a 50-50 deal, because Wladimir is still so far ahead of him in terms of experience and clearly better than him as a fighter. There’s really few boxing fans and writers that think that Haye could beat Wladimir. Sure, they give Haye a puncher’s chance but that’s about it. He simply hasn’t accomplished enough to get a 50-50 deal with a fighter like Wladimir, and the thing of it is, he never will. Haye is talking about retiring at 31. He’s 29 now, and about to turn 30 in October.

So it looks like Haye isn’t going to pick up enough experience ever to be on parity with Wladimir unless Wladimir starts losing all of a sudden over and over again. If that happens, Haye won’t fight Wladimir anyway.